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DPS MP Lyutvi Mestan has drawn attention to yet another complaint of police brutality. Photo by BGNES
Bulgaria's ethnic Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS) party has raised the alarm about a new case of police brutality.
DPS MP Lyutvi Mestan said Tuesday that he had received a tip-off from Nurai Myumyun, 33, from the southeastern town of Pavel Banya, who complained that he had been been beaten up at a police department.
The man said he had been summoned to the police station for an inquiry at the end of last week.
Upon entering the building, the police officers had asked him if he had anything to tell them.
He had asked them to be more specific, only to get taken down to the ground by three officers, one in uniform and two in plain clothes, and had been hit with an electric baton.
The injuries were confirmed by a medical expert.
According to the medical report, the hematoma and the swelling agree with the man's description of the events because the injuries have been caused by solid, blunt objects with a cylindrical shape.
"This is yet another beating of people who have not even been officially charged," Mestan commented.
Representatives of the ethnic Turkish party vowed to look into the matter and to ask Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov for an explanation.
They also said that they were considering a tip-off to the the prosecuting authority.
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